Let's see, what might be the probability that having passed through this place one or both of them stopped in again or that SOMEONE they know comes here and might point out the link. He loved her enough to do this, so just let it go. I can be less than politically correct sometimes, but damn, dude. Don't be a dick.

Let's see, what might be the probability that having passed through this place one or both of them stopped in again or that SOMEONE they know comes here and might point out the link. He loved her enough to do this, so just let it go. I can be less than politically correct sometimes, but damn, dude. Don't be a dick.

Yeah, but they named their kid Kal-El, so perhaps some mocking is in order after all.

Let's see, what might be the probability that having passed through this place one or both of them stopped in again or that SOMEONE they know comes here and might point out the link. He loved her enough to do this, so just let it go. I can be less than politically correct sometimes, but damn, dude. Don't be a dick.

UberDave:Uncontrolled_Jibe: UberDave: Damn. The bride has huge tracts of land.

Let's see, what might be the probability that having passed through this place one or both of them stopped in again or that SOMEONE they know comes here and might point out the link. He loved her enough to do this, so just let it go. I can be less than politically correct sometimes, but damn, dude. Don't be a dick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6qHdtyBWy4

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Ya, "Huge tracts of land" is a long time geek/gamer euphemism. I have never thought of it as derogatory. More of a selling point.

Did they just have a quicky ceremony in whatever is the UK equivalent of Vegas or something? Not seeing how having comic book t-shirts that were probably in these dudes' wardrobes under the wedding party's tuxes adds much to the expense of the wedding./spoilsport

I'll be honest. When I saw the first photo I thought the big boobs were a way for the bride and bridesmaids to get in on the comic book dress up action. Like maybe they padded them. But then I looked for another second and realized, nope, not intentional, they were probably real.

TFA:Their two children - 4-year-old Kal-El (named after Superman's real name) and 2-year-old Harley Quinn (named after one of Batman's enemies)

Okay, Harley Quinn can pass as an unusual name, but not an unfortunate one. Kal-El (and I'm assuming that the wholehyphenated thing is the first name), on the other hand can look forward to a lifetime of mockery. Seriously, they could have gone for Clark with Kent as a middle name that he didn't have to share around, and no one would be the wiser.

quizzical:TFA: Their two children - 4-year-old Kal-El (named after Superman's real name) and 2-year-old Harley Quinn (named after one of Batman's enemies)

Okay, Harley Quinn can pass as an unusual name, but not an unfortunate one. Kal-El (and I'm assuming that the wholehyphenated thing is the first name), on the other hand can look forward to a lifetime of mockery. Seriously, they could have gone for Clark with Kent as a middle name that he didn't have to share around, and no one would be the wiser.

Presumably, they know what happens to people from this universe who are named Clark Kent

quizzical:TFA: Their two children - 4-year-old Kal-El (named after Superman's real name) and 2-year-old Harley Quinn (named after one of Batman's enemies)

Okay, Harley Quinn can pass as an unusual name, but not an unfortunate one. Kal-El (and I'm assuming that the wholehyphenated thing is the first name), on the other hand can look forward to a lifetime of mockery. Seriously, they could have gone for Clark with Kent as a middle name that he didn't have to share around, and no one would be the wiser.

Maybe he's named Kal-El on his birth certificate and they just call him Kal. Maybe. God, I hope that's the case.

I'm a first-rate comics geek and would be sorely tempted to name my kid Phoenix or Morpheus but I also wouldn't want my children subjected to daily beatings at school. My friends who have kids all went the subtle route--picked characters' names that could possibly pass as somewhat normal. From 3 geeky sets of parents: Lucien (from Underworld but they call him Luke), Amidala (they call her Amy. Amidala's only on her BC), Cassiopeia (from the original BSG. They call her Cassie), and brothers Xander (from Buffy but they figure it's been long enough where kids won't realize where it's from)and Mal (short for Malcolm, from Firefly)

Let's see, what might be the probability that having passed through this place one or both of them stopped in again or that SOMEONE they know comes here and might point out the link. He loved her enough to do this, so just let it go. I can be less than politically correct sometimes, but damn, dude. Don't be a dick.

baconbeard:Duck_of_Doom: baconbeard: Let me guess, it was either Star Wars, Star Trek, Firefly, Dr. Who, Game of Thrones, or some sort of super-hero themed. *yawn*

/dart//you're not a "nerd" when everyone's into it

Stop liking what I know about?

Like whatever you like. Just don't go loudly proclaiming about how big a "nerd" you are because you've got all three seasons of Game of Thrones on BluRay.

Oh, god. Nerd elitism.

Son, and I say that not caring how old you are or aren't, let me tell you something. For all I know you, you were there the day Gyax and a couple of his friends played their first round of Chainmail, suggested to McCaffery that 'something with dragons in it would make a good next book', and spent time at a writer's retreat high in the mountains high on peyote in a poly-puddle with Heinlein and Asimov at the same time. Regardless, I have played every system from Ironclaw to FATAL to Synabar to Underground to SLA Industries. I've seen cons born and die. I've coffee camped at Denny's with names before they were names, and after. I've had more con sex in one room at one time than most people have partners in their life. I've taken myself far too seriously dancing naked under the moon with so-called wiccan girls with and without the assistance of recreational pharmaceuticals, and debated light sabres versus the Darksword. I've worn stupid costumes, and capes, and makeup, and things I'm even less proud of. I've gone without sleep for days on end playing tabletop rpgs, strategic wargames, and later video games and mmos. I've sat in flickering darkness and shouted words and thrown things at movie screens, and been amazed at these newfangled japanese cartoons people started doing showings of. I was at the first con they handed out free packs of this new-fangled 'Magic: The Gathering' thing and laughed with the rest of the roleplayers about 'card games', then saw the whole con fall to pieces as just about everyone stopped what they had been planning to do to play. I knew the original Inner Circle of the Camarilla and slept with large swaths of the membership. I've known scadians, and furries, and freaks of all stripes.

These people are good people. These people are our people, whatever their supposed nerd power level. And you do them, yourself, and, for whatever it is worth, the image of nerds everywhere a disservice by being so petty about it.

He somehow also managed to convince her to get a professional updo for no apparent reason that day, and drugged her and propped her up Weekend at Bernie's style so a seamstress could alter the wedding dress he chose for her?

baconbeard:Duck_of_Doom: baconbeard: Let me guess, it was either Star Wars, Star Trek, Firefly, Dr. Who, Game of Thrones, or some sort of super-hero themed. *yawn*

/dart//you're not a "nerd" when everyone's into it

Stop liking what I know about?

Like whatever you like. Just don't go loudly proclaiming about how big a "nerd" you are because you've got all three seasons of Game of Thrones on BluRay.

This couple had a superhero themed wedding, which the husband planned for 18 months. They named their children after comic book characters. It's safe to say that they're not poseurs to nerddom. Just because something is popular doesn't mean there aren't levels of nerdity involved. For instance, you mentioned Star Wars. Anyone can say they have the DVDs. Some can claim to know the movie have Jedi, and have vague yet accurate ideas of what Jedi are. It takes a level in Nerd to be able to quote the Jedi Code. Nerdism isn't being into unknown uncool things, it's to what depth you're into what you're into. And yes, sports fans who quote random trivia are sports nerds imo.

LowbrowDeluxe:baconbeard: Duck_of_Doom: baconbeard: Let me guess, it was either Star Wars, Star Trek, Firefly, Dr. Who, Game of Thrones, or some sort of super-hero themed. *yawn*

/dart//you're not a "nerd" when everyone's into it

Stop liking what I know about?

Like whatever you like. Just don't go loudly proclaiming about how big a "nerd" you are because you've got all three seasons of Game of Thrones on BluRay.

Oh, god. Nerd elitism.

Son, and I say that not caring how old you are or aren't, let me tell you something. For all I know you, you were there the day Gyax and a couple of his friends played their first round of Chainmail, suggested to McCaffery that 'something with dragons in it would make a good next book', and spent time at a writer's retreat high in the mountains high on peyote in a poly-puddle with Heinlein and Asimov at the same time. Regardless, I have played every system from Ironclaw to FATAL to Synabar to Underground to SLA Industries. I've seen cons born and die. I've coffee camped at Denny's with names before they were names, and after. I've had more con sex in one room at one time than most people have partners in their life. I've taken myself far too seriously dancing naked under the moon with so-called wiccan girls with and without the assistance of recreational pharmaceuticals, and debated light sabres versus the Darksword. I've worn stupid costumes, and capes, and makeup, and things I'm even less proud of. I've gone without sleep for days on end playing tabletop rpgs, strategic wargames, and later video games and mmos. I've sat in flickering darkness and shouted words and thrown things at movie screens, and been amazed at these newfangled japanese cartoons people started doing showings of. I was at the first con they handed out free packs of this new-fangled 'Magic: The Gathering' thing and laughed with the rest of the roleplayers about 'card games', then saw the whole con fall to pieces as just about everyone stopped what they had been p ...

Holy shiat, that's a series I haven't even thought about in close to two decades, much less debated about. Of course Farkers would consider the authors of that series "hacks" over their Dragonlance books, because you know, they sucked of course.

/The Force is not really magic, the Darksword would just be a big ugly sword that would possibly end up getting sliced in half in the first blow with a light saber.//come at me bro!

Maybe fat. Maybe she's just got really large tracts of land. Definitely not ugly. On looks alone? At least a 5. On the smile for her husband in a national/international publication? +2 On self-confidence alone (I can't imagine how much self-confidence it takes to be big and wear a strapless wedding gown, but I imagine her metaphorical stones are much bigger than your real? ones.) +3. On either being a nerd/geek or simply supporting her husbands nerdgeekery? That's at least another +3.

brigid_fitch:quizzical: TFA: Their two children - 4-year-old Kal-El (named after Superman's real name) and 2-year-old Harley Quinn (named after one of Batman's enemies)

Okay, Harley Quinn can pass as an unusual name, but not an unfortunate one. Kal-El (and I'm assuming that the wholehyphenated thing is the first name), on the other hand can look forward to a lifetime of mockery. Seriously, they could have gone for Clark with Kent as a middle name that he didn't have to share around, and no one would be the wiser.

Maybe he's named Kal-El on his birth certificate and they just call him Kal. Maybe. God, I hope that's the case.

I'm a first-rate comics geek and would be sorely tempted to name my kid Phoenix or Morpheus but I also wouldn't want my children subjected to daily beatings at school. My friends who have kids all went the subtle route--picked characters' names that could possibly pass as somewhat normal. From 3 geeky sets of parents: Lucien (from Underworld but they call him Luke), Amidala (they call her Amy. Amidala's only on her BC), Cassiopeia (from the original BSG. They call her Cassie), and brothers Xander (from Buffy but they figure it's been long enough where kids won't realize where it's from)and Mal (short for Malcolm, from Firefly)

LowbrowDeluxe:Dingleberry Dickwad: /The Force is not really magic, the Darksword would just be a big ugly sword that would possibly end up getting sliced in half in the first blow with a light saber.

Heh, totally agree. That was my position on it. The other side was 50% 'any sufficiently advanced science' and 50% 'if it can absorb magical energy, then light sabre energy...'

Light saber energy is just plasma held in a containment field, which is all generated by a high energy power cell. If the Darksword could absorb that, it could have absorbed the energy blasts from when the Technologists invaded or electricity, and I don't remember that happening. At least I think they were energy blasts, been way too long since I read the books.

Flappyhead:ZeroCorpse: Wow. That is the definition of "trying too hard." Not just one nerdy theme, but ALL OF THEM squashed together and then submitted to social media.

You people make me glad I stopped referring to myself as a geek. I'm happy with "weird", thanks. These days, "weird" is still somewhat unique, but "geek" has become so trendy as to be mundane.

He's no geek, though. The word we used for people like this in the 1980s was "spazz."

Here it is folks, the day ZeroCorpse officially crossed over and became a nerd-hipster.

I am not a nerd. I'm an old postpunk who happens to like a few nerdy things, but I have never, ever referred to myself as a nerd, nor do I particularly like being called a geek, either.

The difference is that, while I like some geeky things quite a lot (comic books, science fiction, games, etc.), I do not identify myself with any of them. I do not typically wear t-shirts displaying my favorite comic book characters or making nerd references (or, in fact, any other words or print on them; I'm not a billboard.) I do not collect anything, anymore; Not action figures, not comics, not posters, not anything. I do not get in pissing contests about how much better my stupid cosplay is than someone else's (because I mostly loathe cosplay as the biggest attention-whore move of them all). I do not talk to normal people about my geeky media interests.

I consider nerds and geeks decent enough people, but I do not identify myself as one of them. I do not identify with any clique or tribe anymore. I'm happy to be outside of all that. I'm happy to just be a nice, kinda weird, easy-going guy. I don't even go to conventions anymore because they're such extroverted events now. They rub me the wrong way. I liked them back when it was a bunch of guys at fold-out tables selling comics and signing stuff for fans. No cosplayers. No movie tie-ins. No toy collectors. No video game companies. Smaller, more intimate, less "LOOK AT ME I AM GEEK! HEAR ME ROAR!"

And as I said, these days the title of "geek" seems to be used by everyone trying to describe the fact that they have a heavy dose of extended adolescence.

I write all this as A New Hope is playing on my projector screen. Again, I can like Star Wars without needing to wear a Star Wars jacket and decorate my home with lightsabers and other toys. I'm happy to be an adult, and there's nothing wrong with being an adult who enjoys some geeky things from time to time as long as your whole identity isn't wrapped up in your self-titled geekhood.

And I'd say making your wedding a nerd-themed wedding is obsession. When you broadcast it on social media, it's attention-whoring that makes you fair game for FARK debate about the degree of your social awkwardness and desire for middling "nerdier-than-thou" Internet fame.

/I've also been binge-watching Star Trek TOS.//Space hippies are more tolerable than some self-professed nerds.///I've decided that it's ridiculous that Kirk doesn't have thousands of descendants by the time of TNG.

ZeroCorpse:Flappyhead: ZeroCorpse: Wow. That is the definition of "trying too hard." Not just one nerdy theme, but ALL OF THEM squashed together and then submitted to social media.

You people make me glad I stopped referring to myself as a geek. I'm happy with "weird", thanks. These days, "weird" is still somewhat unique, but "geek" has become so trendy as to be mundane.

He's no geek, though. The word we used for people like this in the 1980s was "spazz."

Here it is folks, the day ZeroCorpse officially crossed over and became a nerd-hipster.

I am not a nerd. I'm an old postpunk who happens to like a few nerdy things, but I have never, ever referred to myself as a nerd, nor do I particularly like being called a geek, either.

The difference is that, while I like some geeky things quite a lot (comic books, science fiction, games, etc.), I do not identify myself with any of them. I do not typically wear t-shirts displaying my favorite comic book characters or making nerd references (or, in fact, any other words or print on them; I'm not a billboard.) I do not collect anything, anymore; Not action figures, not comics, not posters, not anything. I do not get in pissing contests about how much better my stupid cosplay is than someone else's (because I mostly loathe cosplay as the biggest attention-whore move of them all). I do not talk to normal people about my geeky media interests.

I consider nerds and geeks decent enough people, but I do not identify myself as one of them. I do not identify with any clique or tribe anymore. I'm happy to be outside of all that. I'm happy to just be a nice, kinda weird, easy-going guy. I don't even go to conventions anymore because they're such extroverted events now. They rub me the wrong way. I liked them back when it was a bunch of guys at fold-out tables selling comics and signing stuff for fans. No cosplayers. No movie tie-ins. No toy collectors. No video game companies. Smaller, more intimate, less "LOOK AT ME I AM GEEK! HEAR ME ROAR ...

TL,DR version: "I'd normally be considered a geek/dork/nerd but due to a combination of over zealous nerds, the old stigma of the name, and a sort of watering down of what makes a geek, I don't consider myself one."

Rarely do I see such self conflict on Fark. You don't want to consider yourself a geek/nerd/whatever, but you give a shiat enough as to what makes a geek/nerd/whatever to quibble over it and whether others are worthy of it.